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Gemini in Gmail can now help polish up your drafts

Gemini in Gmail can now help polish up your drafts

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‘Help me write’ can now polish your emails, in addition to being able to formalize them or shorten them.

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Vector illustration of the Google Gemini logo.
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Google is upgrading its Gemini writing tools in Gmail to help you polish drafts that you’ve already written. Now, among other Gemini-powered “Help me write” options like Formalize and Elaborate, you can tap “Polish” to refine your emails, Google says in a blog post. The company has also added shortcuts that appear in the body of your emails on Android and iOS, making it more obvious that there are AI writing tools to use.

The tools are available to people who pay for Google One AI Premium accounts or who have paid for Google’s Gemini add-on for Workspace. If that’s you, when you open an empty draft, you’ll see a “Help me write” shortcut appear that you can tap to have Gemini draft text for you. Once you have 12 or more words in a draft — AI-written or not — you should see a new “Refine my draft” shortcut, shown in gray letters below the words.

GIF showing the process of activating the “Refine my draft” shortcut.
Swiping on the “Refine my draft” shortcut brings up options like “Polish” and “Elaborate.”
GIF: Google

Swipe your thumb across the text, and you’ll be given the choice to Polish, Formalize, Elaborate, or Shorten, or to have Gemini just write a whole new draft for you. (And if the “Refine my draft” shortcut doesn’t appear, tapping the pencil icon does the same thing.)